--- title: "OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning" description: "OpenAI and Meta are reportedly about to release new AI models that achieve important milestones towards achieving AGI." date: "2024-04-11" modified: "2024-04-11" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-meta-new-ai-models-capable-reasoning" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Meta" - "OpenAI" tags: - "generative ai" - "Meta" - "OpenAI" - "the digest" --- # OpenAI and Meta Reportedly Preparing New AI Models Capable of Reasoning ![OpenAI and Meta are reportedly about to release new AI models that achieve important milestones towards achieving AGI.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## Soon™ OpenAI and Meta are on the verge of releasing next versions of their AI models that will supposedly be capable of reasoning and planning, the [*Financial Times* reports](). But, as with any hype coming out of big tech, take it all with a grain of salt. For one thing, there's no exact timeline for a rollout. Per the report, OpenAI has indicated that its next AI model, which will likely be called GPT-5, is coming "soon." Meta, meanwhile, said it's expecting to release its Llama 3 model in the coming weeks. "We are hard at work in figuring out how to get these models not just to talk, but actually to reason, to plan... to have memory," Joelle Pineau, Meta's vice president of AI research, told the *FT*. If either party's claims are to be believed — a big if, considering how superficial they sound — both models could mark a major step towards achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), an [eagerly-fantasized breakthrough]() that could see AI models possessing human-like or even superhuman cognition. ## Pinky Promise Brad Lightcap, the chief operating officer at OpenAI, told the *FT* that "we're going to start to see AI that can take on more complex tasks in a more sophisticated way." "I think we're just starting to scratch the surface on the ability that these models have to reason," he added. With its upcoming Llama 3, Meta aims to integrate a more powerful version of its AI assistant into WhatsApp, as well as its augmented reality Ray-Ban glasses, according to the report. OpenAI's plans for GPT-5 are less clear. "I think over time... we'll see the models go toward longer, kind of more complex tasks," Lightcap told the *FT*. "And that implicitly requires the improvement in their ability to reason." ## AGI... Someday The claims coming out of both camps are frustratingly vague. Of course, that's more or less been the modus operandi for AI leaders. After all, this isn't the first time we've been teased with glimmers of sentient AI. Last summer, researchers at Microsoft claimed that GPT-4, which at the time had only just been released, was showing "[sparks" of AGI](). OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has [long spoken of the company's AGI endeavors](). At Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that [creating AGI is the driving vision]() behind its expensive AI push. Some research has suggested that evidence of an AGI breakthrough [are nothing more than a "mirage" or illusion](). Broadly, there**'**s [a lot of skepticism]() surrounding the idea — perhaps now more than ever. At some point, [AI models may simply run out of data to train on](). By contrast, other experts, including AI "godfather" [Geoffrey Hinton](), expect AGI as soon as [within the next few years](). However rigorous those expert projections may be, these latest promises from OpenAI and Meta still sound more like gossip than anything substantive, at least until we've seen them with our own eyes. **More on AI:** *[New Law Would Force AI Companies to Reveal Copyrighted Training Data]()* ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()